Category: Game Ideas

Character Matching

In a deck of cards, there are 10 characters divided up into different sections. For example, one of the cards might have a characters arm or leg. The objective of the game is to collect all of the pieces to your character before other players do. One of the challenges can be other players might be going for the same character. Each player receives 7 cards to start out with. The person to the left of the dealer goes first. They can either pick up a card from the deck or discard pile. Then they have to discard a card. You must only have 7 cards in your hand the whole time. The game keeps going until someone finds their character.

Ennegram Personality

The Ennegram is a personality test. The personalities are explained by numbers 1 – 9. Each number explains a different personality. This game will test the knowledge of the different personality types. Each player is given 9 cards with the descriptions of each personality on the back to get a good understanding of each one (1 – 9). For example, a type 8 personality is called a challenger, therefore, they do not hesitate when an argument comes their way. Once everyone has a good understanding of the personalities, someone starts with picking up a scenario card. After the scenario is read out loud, each player must pick the number (personality) they think matches it. Whoever get it right, gets a point. The goal of the game is to have the most points at the end of 9 rounds.

Story-Telling

Some people are great at story-telling and some not so great. This game will challenge you to get creative in the way you tell stories because you are given different scenarios and items that you have to work together to tell your story. There is a deck of cards number 1 – 12. That deck is shuffled and everyone goes around the table and picks one of those cards. Depending on the number you picked, is the amount of cards you pick from the “Item” deck. The Item deck consists of different objects, places, people, etc. Your goal is to create a story with those items. Each player takes time to create their own story from their items. Then, one by one, each person tells their story. Each person votes on which story was the best.

Create Your Own Coffee

Each person drinks their coffee differently. There are a bunch of different beans, syrups, creamer, sugar, and toppings to choose from. In this game, you create your coffee drink and try to sell your invention to the other players. There are four decks of cards: Bean, Syrup, Toppings and Milk. Each player picks up one card from each pile. From the items on the cards, each player must come up with a name and business pitch to try and sell their coffee drink to the other players. Once everyone shares their business pitch with one another, there is a majority vote over which coffee drink wins.

Bridal Party

Sometimes being a part of a bridal party can be exciting, exhausting, fun, and stressful. In this game, everyone is given a role: Bridesmaid, Maid of Honor and the Bride. The goal of the game is to make sure the bride gets to her wedding day with everything she wants and needs. This card game will go through three phases: bridesmaid dresses, bridal shower and bachelorette party. Each phase will have different challenges with scenarios to encounter. If the bridesmaids and maid of honor fail to complete one of the phases , you risk putting the bride into a bad mood. If you fail all three phases, you lose the game. Different cards explain different tasks and abilities you are to take for the scenarios.

1.A game where players take turns drawing cards and using their hands against each other in the first stage to build DND- like characters and sabotage their opponent, who will be trying to do the same. The second half of the game sees these characters face off in a simple rpg turn- based combat game to determine the winner.

2. A game where players draw cards with different quirks on them, like, “one legged,” or, “soft spoken” that require each player to do something like stand on one leg or only speak through whispers. The players must then complete tasks while slowly accumulating more quirks and the last person standing, so to speak, is the winner.

3. A game that’s played much like blackjack, but some cards have negative values. The first to 21 or the closer of the two when the deck is gone is the winner.

4. A card game for multiple players where each player starts with a recipe card. Their recipe card is their goal for the game, and the first person to cook their recipe wins. They take turns drawing a card and playing up to two cards. If they play all the cards needed for their recipe, they have cooked it. Other cards can change other players’ recipes and even their own, or can mess with players in another way.

5. A game played a lot like war, but the catch is that after each turn, players will pass their hand to the player to the left.

Tower of Babel 2

A competitive card game where players must build the tallest tower by collecting and playing cards.

Up Up Down Down

A co-operative board game where players control a single character by drawing and playing cards.

50x Combo!!!

A competitive board game where players create combos by collecting and playing strings of cards.

Steal the Kill

A competitive card game where players fight bosses by playing cards and whoever gets the last hit wins all the loot.

To Slay a God

A co-operative card game where players prepare to fight a Greek god by collecting and trading cards.

Tokaido is a point based resource game where tourists are traveling across japan stopping at different sights and people in order to acquire points which will be tallied up by the time all of the tourists reach the end of their journey.

1. Trick Shot is a game where everyone competes to see who can successfully make trick shots into cups, using only a plastic ball and a booklet filled with shots and visual instructions ranging from beginner to advanced.
2. In Gotcha, players have 3 opportunities to “give” their roll of the die to another player, forcing them to move forwards or backwards the number of spaces chosen by the other player.
3. Role Play is a continuous game that can be played casually or hardcore throughout the whole night as everyone acts out characters/roles from whatever movie or tv show the card they pick shows.
4. No Words is a game where everyone picks a card in the beginning which tells them what words they cannot say throughout the game, then as the group picks cards that tell them what to do, describe, or act out, you are in charge of calling out fellow teammates for using their forbidden words.
5. One person hides an object (specified) object in the room then the players all roll the dice which decided how many moves they have to find the hidden object.

#5

Trash layout-reverse trash idea. So when playing you would actually be playing trash on your opponents deck. You can then take the last card from their trash session and use it in your own pile. But a card is not guaranteed-since you already may have that card. If so you discard that card and move on with the game.  

#4-1

Inspired by a world war 1/2 card game this game will have part of a maps instead of a Jack queen etc. the goal is to make your entire map but in the form of a spoons game. So it’s fast paced and you take only what you think you need. The first person to finish must sneakily take a token or whatever from the middle of the table without anyone noticing. The last to grab the token looses. 

#3 pop culture 

There will be a card master who will then choose a movie scene or meme and the players must decide where it is from. It can be played in either teams or individually. Kinda like it’s not who wants to be a millionaire it’s the other one

#2

there will be food cards that correspond to the number of players in the center. A player is assigned a food card and must ask players like go fish for ingredients to make their food card. The player could lie about having a card and you may have to call their bs. If you are wrong you must give that person one of your cards and must draw one from a pile. Outside friend players will have to guess the rules. They won’t be given. 

#1

it’s a zombie apocalypse game. In this game you cards that vary in worthiness. Some supply cards are more abundant and some are more scarce. You will be given a zombie opponent each battle which is your actual opponent in the game. The supplies on their card is the supplies you need to kill them. The first to kill their zombie wins. 

Battle for Earth is a board game in which Earthens and aliens fight for control of all the regions of Earth by collecting resource cards, using their resources to invade regions controlled by the opposing side, and using their resources to fend off invasions of their own territory.

Societal Advancement is a card game in which players compete to build the most advanced society by strategically choosing cards of different categories to collect each round, and building upon cards of the same category to gain points.

Around the World in 8 Turns is a board game in which sailing captains attempt to be the first to circumnavigate the globe by rolling dice to move, collecting resources, and using those resources to either navigate around obstacles or place obstacles in front of opponents.

Miss Popularity is a board game where high schoolers fight to become Homecoming Queen by rolling dice in order to move across the popularity board, and choosing between safe cards or gamble cards that could move them faster or set them back.

Witchcraft is a board game in which witches attempt to become the most powerful witch in the land while avoiding detection by the townsfolk through traveling across the board to collect resources, using those resources to cast spells to gain power points but lose detection points, and using resources to cast spells that take away an opponent’s detection points.

Game 1:

Players will combine cards and try to get the most points before the cards run out. Players move clockwise, picking up cards, creating different combinations and getting different point values. Once the cards are gone, the round is over. An Ace can pair with any card to get 10 points. 2 and 3 pair to get 3 points. 4 and 5 pair to get 5 points. 6 and 7 pair to get 8 points. 8 and 9 pair to get 10 points. 10 and Jack pair to get 15 points. Queen and King pair to get 15 points. Two Ace cards get 30 points, and doubles of any cards give you 10 points. 

A card game where players combine cards and receive points, trying to have the highest point amount before cards run out.

Game 2:

A drinking game where players roll a dice and move the shot according to the dice value. The game is between 2 players, but can have as many teams as you want. The person who rolled the higher value gets to move the shot towards the other player’s side. Start with the drink in the center and it eventually ends on one player’s side. 

A drinking game where players roll a dice to move a shot closer to the other players side so that they’ll have to take it.

Game 3:

Players pick 1 card and roll 1 dice and then determine points based on the pair. You first pick a card then roll the dice. If you pick a card that is 2,3,4,5, you need to roll a 6 in order to get +1 point. If you pick a card that is 6,7,8,9,10, you need to roll a 4,5,6 to get a +1. If you pick a Jack, Queen, King, or Ace you get +1, regardless of your dice roll, but if you roll a 1, you don’t get a point. First to 10 points, wins.

A card and dice game where players combine card and dice values to gain points and be the first to reach 10 points.

Game 4:

2 players pick a card and reveal the card face up, seeing who got the higher card. The higher card gets to keep the lower value card. If both players have the same values, just reveal another card. Each player starts with half the deck each. You want to end with all the cards, and the other player with none. 

A card game where two players pick and reveal their cards, gaining or losing cards, trying to gain all the cards and get all the other players out.

Game 5:

Players roll 2 dice and want to get to a combined value of 8 or higher. If you can’t get to 8 points, you get no points. Rolling a value of 8 or higher, gives you 1 point. If you roll a combined value of 12, you get 2 points. The first person to 20 points, wins. 

A dice game where players roll a dice, hoping for high values in order to gain points and ultimately reach 20 points first. 

• Cards are numbered and can only have 7 at a time. Idea is to have the added up total the highest. You can also get cards that allow to steal randomly or selectively. Game goes 7 rounds total.

• Card game of mad libs where each card has a word/phase and must take turns piecing together a story.

• Separate into two teams. It’s a hockey card game where there are cards like pass, shoot, save, etc. The goal is to score the most times. You do that by placing down a shoot card and it not being saved. Go until cards run out.

• Red wire Blue Wire. Game where you have red and blue defusers. When a bomb is drawn it will determine which defused works.

• Geoguesser AR game. Game where there are cards in locations throughout the world. You must guess where you are on map. Correct continent gives points and correct country gives more. Correct area of country even more.

Battle of the Gods

This is a greek mythology based card game where each player commands its own army. Each of the cards contain a different god and with that comes an ability. Each player starts with a set number of cards and must use those cards to fight the other player’s army. Depending on the cards in hand the gameplay may change. This is war so there are also various cards that you can play at any time within the round. The goal is to be the last person standing on the battlefield.

Don’t Hesitate

This is a fast paced game of matching similar cards. The goal of the game is to get rid of all your cards from smallest to largest. Each player gets 5 cards. A draw pile is placed in the center of the players. A round of gameplay is started when the dealer turns over the top card of the draw pile. Players then quickly jump in to discard cards of matching number or icon. If you play a wrong card you must draw 2 from the draw pile. The player must discard all of their cards to win. Hesitating in this game can cause you to lose.

Make Believe

This is a card game that revolves around the world of a child’s imagination. The goal of this game is to be able to peacefully go to sleep. Players are given a card that represents the level of their imagination. During each round players can play various cards to ruin the sleep of other people or defend themselves depending on the cards they have in hand. Some cards are themed “monster under the bed” or “the floor is lava”. The first person to get their imagination level to 0 wins.

College

This is a game purely about college students and the pain of student debt. There are debt cards and there are life cards. Players each are dealt 5 debt cards. Each player starts out with $30,000 in debt. Players take turns either using a debt card to sabotage another student or drawing a life that could reduce their own debt. The player that brings their own debt down to $0 wins.

The 7 Seas

This is a pirate based game. There are 7 rounds of gameplay winning each round awards you one step closer to finding the treasure. Players start with 5 cards each, each card contains a different set of rules or gameplay. Players during each turn can play cards to sabotage other pirates. A person is out of the round if they can not play any of their cards. Last pirate standing wins that round and is one token closer to the treasure. The goal of the game is to collect all of the tokens necessary to find the buried treasure.

1)2020: players will start at different corners of the board and will pick cards that corresponding to a 2020 event. The event card will have a number of steps going back and forward based on the event. The first person to get to the center loses. The person wants to stay as close to their corner due to social distancing. It’s 2020 6 feet apart people.

2) We’re Out!: players will have four cards in their hand and will have to ask others for a certain supply card. The player has to find all four of the supply card. A social distancing card can take place of a supply card. The person who gets all of the same supplies wins.

3) Anti- maskers: players must stay away from the anti maskers as they deny or play out scenario cards. These cards would have scenarios on them that would keep you away or closer to the anti masker(plastic piece not tag) depending on the scenario. The way you answer the scenario will either make you win or loose.

4)Socially Distant: Players are provided images with and must come up with a caption that is the funniest. The head masker will choose the answer and after five rounds the person chosen the most wins.

5)Infection!: players must infects with others with an infection card( cough cough covid-19) the first person to get the infection card is out for the next round and must give it to another person. The person who has gotten the infection card the most looses.

GAME REVIEW: Love Letter+Zombie Fluxx

Love letter was the easiest to learn after playing Zombie Fluxx. The game was much more simpler and was way faster. I liked the design of the game and how cute it was. I have not played a game where I had an actual target. The word target actually being put on the card itself. That was new. Overall I had a better experience with this game.

Zombie Fluxx:

No. My brain hurt trying to figure out that game especially in the beginning. After a while of playing I got used to it but it was something that I had never experienced before. I’m not sure if it’s something I want to play again. I like easy going games and this just had to make me think much more than I was prepared to. It did get exciting at times or you knew another player was going to win looking down at the cards on the table. Overall it was eventually enjoyable but not something I would willing play again at 10 am.

Madisyn Kovach

Idea 1: Will you say yes to the rose? (Inspired by the bachelor and Apples to Apples)

During this game, everyone will start with 7 black cards that have certain men’s names on them that have been on the bachelor. During every round, one person will be in charge of laying down a “Rose Card”. On the rose card, it will state a personality/trait. (For example: A man with the best hair.) You must lay down a black card on top of the rose. Whoever was in charge of laying down that rose will chose the best option. Whoever wins receives a rose. You must have seven roses to win the game.

Idea 2: Type

Ten cards will be dealt out at the beginning of this game. Each card will consist of a different letter in a different typeface. During this game, You must try to make out as many words possible with the same or most similar typeface. Depending on how many letters your word has matches how many points you will earn. After going around in your circle and picking up a letter, you must throw one of you cards into a trash pile. You can always build off of previous words. Whoever creates enough words that equal thirty points first will win.

Idea 3: Who’s the Artist? (Off Old Maid)

This game involves matching, pairing, and knowing artists. The standard 52-card pack is included with different artists/their works featured. When getting a match of artists, before laying them down, you must say their name and a piece of art that they have created, if you fail, you must discard those two cards into the discard pile and pick up 1 new card. Who ever ends up with the most matches at the end wins.

Idea 4: Follow me on Instagram

You will be given 7 cards with different memes on them. One person will be in charge of laying down a “Profile” card. That profile card will show a persons name and their instagram bio. When you see that profile, you have to pick a card from your seven options that you think will be their first instagram post. The person that laid down the name and bio card will get to chose the funniest card. Whoever gets the most “likes” at the end wins.

Idea 5: And they were roommates?

Max players would be six people. The game will come with 52 questions and 6 white boards, markers, and erasers. During this game, someone will lay down a card with a “Most likely” comment. (Ex: Most likely to dye their hair randomly). Everyone will have to write down who they think would be most likely to do that. On the count of three, everyone must turn their boards around, whoever’s name gets written the most will receive two points and if it’s a tie between 2 people, you will both get one point. At the end of the 52 cards, whoever has the most points wins. This is a test to see how all roommates think about each other.

Rule of Planets: A game that is Catan meets Monopoly in space.  Players are each seeking to expand a galactic empire by spreading to different planets.  They’ll have resource cards and have to trade them in to travel to different planets, and then use cards to build a base there.  From there, a planet might give certain bonus cards to use in the future.  For example, a player might play four rocket fuel cards to get to Pluto, play four construction cards to build a base there, and get a bonus of an extra rocket fuel card on each of their subsequent turns.  There are a finite number of planets to conquer, and the player that has conquered the most in the end wins.

Matching Sets: In this game, players want to get as many matching sets of cards as possible.  They start out with a deck of a certain length.  Each player’s turn, that player has to choose one card to sacrifice, and all the other players pick up two of that card type.

Genetic engineering: In this game, the players are genetic engineers.  They are collecting cards in order to become the most powerful genetic engineer.  There are three types of cards.  There are tech cards (which will offer different point values at the end of the game), order cards (in which you can sacrifice several specified cards to get points at the end of the game) and funding cards (which are used to purchase tech cards.) Tech cards fall into three categories: basic (things like brown hair or brown eyes), advanced (things like natural disease immunity or excellent memory) and mutations (things like claws, see-in-the-dark eyes, gills, etc.)  An order card might ask for a black hair card, a brown eyes card, and a gills card.

Time Travel Team: In this game, players are time travelers.  Their goal is to fill their time travel team/ship with different figures and artifacts from history before the rest of the players.  They do this by playing cards to travel to certain locations, and then playing additional cards to either recruit historical figures to their side or collect famous artifacts.

Gemstone game: In this game, the players are gemstone entrepreneurs. They collect gemstone cards and after a certain amount is collected, can ‘sell’ the gemstones in the form of jewelry for money.  They need to collect a certain amount of cards of a gemstone in order to ‘trademark’ it. Trademarking it means that the other players can no longer ‘sell’ those gemstones for money and can only trade them with other players.  The player with the most money at the end of the game wins.

1. Tic Tac Toe

Each person has a deck of cards and they put 9 cards out in front of them. If they don’t have tic tac toe, they draw a card and can replace any one of the nine cards. Once someone gets tic tac toe, they collect the cards and replace them with cards from the deck. Whoever has the most matches at the end of the game wins.

2. Deal all the cards out to everyone playing. Once you put down all of the matches, the game starts. Each player passes one card to their right. Whoever runs out of cards first wins.

3. Guess Who

Each person has a deck of cards in front of them and has one card as their ‘person.’ Each player takes turns asking if the ‘person’ has a certain quality – i.e. if it is a spade. If it is a spade, the other person flips over all of the cards that aren’t a spade. Whoever can guess the other player’s ‘person’  first wins.

4. Run

Each person starts off my putting 5 cards down. They then take turns drawing a card and replacing one of the original 5. Whoever gets a run first – i.e. 2 3 4 5 6 – wins.

5. Card Train

Each person has 10-15 cards out of a shuffled deck. Up to 4 players take 15 cards, 5 or 6 take 12, and 7 or 8 take 10. There is a ‘hub slot’ for each player and a card that starts the personal trains. Draw a card and put it in the middle of the hub to start the individual trains. The person to the left of whoever drew the first card for the communal train goes first. This then goes in a clockwise direction. Each person can either add one card to the communal train or they can add to their personal train if the card matches the hub card. If a player doesn’t have a move, they can choose a face down card from the ‘boneyard.’ If they still don’t have a move, they have to take the last card off of their personal train and that train becomes communal. Anyone can add to your personal train until you can add to it, which makes it a personal train again. Whoever runs out of cards first wins. To add to a train, the cards either have to be the same color, suit, face, or number.